On 10.11.2012 04:59, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote:
>
>> request, so I'm wondering ... does Apache just handle a HEAD as a GET
>> under-the-hood and then discard the resulting response body?  The comment
>>
> Unless the handler does something special, yes, httpd will treat HEAD as a
> GET until it is time to send the response body...and simply drops the
> response body.
>

That would imply that, if content-length doesn't get set on a HEAD
response, but Transfer-Encoding: chunked does, then everything is
correct, right? If somewhat inefficient.

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